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#9,511 All-time worldwide
#41 1977 releases

Movie profile

The War in Space

1977 · 91 min · Toho Pictures

Adventure Science Fiction Action
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $4.0M
Budget $2.0M
Gross minus budget $2.0M
ROI 2.00x

Domestic gross

$1.6M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$2.4M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$448,000

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where The War in Space ranks

Positioned across the all-time chart, release year, studio, franchise and genre indexes where enough mapped data exists.
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All-time worldwide #9,511 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1977 releases #41 Release-year chart position of 69 titles Ranked against movies released in 1977. Studio / company #15 Toho Pictures of 15 titles Position inside the mapped Toho Pictures movie set. Primary genre #1,844 Adventure of 2,138 titles Genre context based on the first mapped genre on this profile.

Nearby worldwide ranks

Comparable titles immediately around this movie by reported worldwide gross.

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Quick answer

How did The War in Space (1977) perform at the box office?

High confidence

The War in Space (1977) earned a reported $4.0M worldwide against a reported $2.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $2.0M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 2.00x. In this database it currently ranks #9,511 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #41 among 1977 releases.

Worldwide gross
$4,000,000
Budget
$2,000,000
Gross minus budget
$2,000,000
ROI
2.00x
Source: TMDb. Last updated: Jul 13, 2026. View source Gross-minus-budget is not studio net profit. It excludes marketing, distribution fees, revenue splits, tax incentives and later home/streaming revenue.

Synopsis

Story

The year is 1988, and in the midst of recovering from a near-miss with a large comet, Earth finds that there are much worse matters at hand: the sudden arrival of a strange army of aliens and their fleet of unstoppable warships.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Dec 17, 1977
Production
Toho Pictures, Toho Eizo Bijutsu, Tokyo Laboratory
Countries
JP

Related indexes

Browse related box office pages

Studio / production companyToho Pictures FranchiseThe Mysterians Release year chart1977 box office Genre chartAdventure Genre chartScience Fiction Genre chartAction

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AI summary

Why this movie matters

Released in 1977, The War in Space is positioned in this dataset as a Adventure, Science Fiction, Action title from Toho Pictures. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $4.0M, reported production budget is $2.0M, gross-minus-budget is $2.0M, ROI is 2.00x. For comparison, it currently sits #9,511 all-time in the current chart set and #41 among 1977 releases. Streaming availability should be checked against the selected United States region because provider rights can change.

AI-generated contextual summary based on available movie, genre, ranking and box office data. It does not replace official distributor notes or financial reporting.
Data noteGross minus budget is not studio net profit. It excludes marketing, distribution fees, revenue splits, tax incentives and downstream revenue. Domestic, international and opening weekend figures marked as estimated are modelled estimates.